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cross-contaminate

verb

Etymology

From cross- + contaminate.

  1. derived from contāminātus
  2. inherited from contaminaten
  3. formed as cross-contaminate — “cross- + contaminate”

Definitions

  1. To transfer a contaminant from one source to another.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cross-contaminate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA